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"The Department of Justice letter indicates that they believe our legacy Course Capture content from webcast.berkeley.edu and located on YouTube and iTunesU is
by WillPostForFood 10y ago
"The Department of Justice letter indicates that they believe our legacy Course Capture content from webcast.berkeley.edu and located on YouTube and iTunesU is in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. "
Unintended consequences of a well intentioned law - everyone loses access to information, even many disabled people who still could have used it.
- Frqy3 10y agoUnfortunately they have gone for the Harrison Bergeron approach to achieving equality. A better approach would have been to build a tool that allows crowdsourcing of captions with a way for students with special needs to tag videos for prioritisation.
- kingbirdy 10y agoUser-submitted captions are already a built-in YouTube feature